{"id":761,"date":"2009-11-06T18:26:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T23:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/hungerrumblings\/?p=761"},"modified":"2009-11-06T18:26:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T23:26:24","slug":"global-warming-and-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/global-warming-and-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Global warming and government"},"content":{"rendered":"

To run a country, a seat of government has to have a permanent address.<\/p>\n

Back in 1862, a flood transformed Sacramento into what papers called \u201ca sort of a frontier Venice.\u201d Early in January, said reporters, \u201cWater in Sacramento was at such a depth that no one attempted to move about the city except by boat.\u201d Governor Leland Stanford arrived at his inauguration in a rowboat. Ten days later, the State Treasurer\u2019s office was under three feet of water, and \u201ca piano in the parlor of the Chief Justice, though perched upon chairs, was soaked, and the pictures in the parlor were spoiled.\u201d<\/p>\n

On January 24, 1862, the government packed up and moved to San Francisco to finish out the legislature\u2019s session. In the fall, everyone got back to work in a dried-out Sacramento, which has been the capital city ever since.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure if Gov. Schwarzenegger has a flood contingency plan, but other governments are getting ready! Last month, the Prime Minister and cabinet of the Maldives donned scuba gear and met underwater<\/a>. This month, Nepal\u2019s cabinet will meet at the Mt. Everest base camp<\/a>. Both governments are taking to the road to emphasize the perils they face from flooding caused by global warming\u2014the Maldives, by sinking under the sea; Nepal, by melting glaciers.<\/p>\n

These people are seriously worried. Me, too. While northern California\u2019s reservoirs are dangerously low, Sacramento\u2014still at sea level, still surrounded by levees, though they\u2019ve gotten sturdier since 1862\u2014is as vulnerable as New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina, my nephew asked my parents to put an ax in a second-floor closet so they could chop through their roof if they had to. If hundred-year rains and an early snow melt inundate Sacramento and send my parents to their roof, where will they send California\u2019s government?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s astonishing to hear that the number of people who think that global warming is caused by humans is declining. Even though humans\u2014and mostly humans living in North America\u2014generate about 4 billion more tons of greenhouse gases than the earth can absorb! I\u2019m hoping the big climate change conference happening in Copenhagen<\/a> in December will turn that trend around.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I\u2019ll ride my bike, take the bus, and get that ax upstairs.<\/p>\n

\"The

The cabinet of Maldives meets underwater<\/p><\/div>\n

Anne Basye<\/p>\n

\u201cSustaining Simplicity\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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